Szabó Miklós, Petres F. Éva: Decorated weapons on the La Tene Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin. (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae 5; Budapest, 1992)
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Scabbard Length. 82 cm. Breadth. 5 cm. Mouth. Type A2, subcampanulate variety. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal reinforce across the ornament clamped to the sides with plastic decoration. Loop. Type HIB. Loop-plates. Rounded and shieldshaped, with a rivet on the upper loop-plate. Chape-clamps. Round, with raised centre. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Missing. Chagrinage. Shagreened with a fine, pointed ring-punch on the front plate. The shagreened field is 13,2 cm long by 3.5 cm broad, framed with incised lines on three sides. The upper side is framed with a bird-pair motif. Design. lbi+b 2 ; SSS+Nav. Ill (allied ornament, incised bird-pair). Sword Total length. 83 cm. Total length of hilt. 15 cm. Breadth. 4.8 cm. Probably manufactured in a northern Swiss workshop. Literature. Hunyady (1942-44) 111, Pl. XLV.2; Hunyady (1957) 88; Szabó (1972) Fig. 25.4; De Navarro (1972) 86, 107, 122, 220 f, PL CLII. 2 and Fig. 17.3a-b; KKM, Cat. no. 90; Petres (1982) 165, Fig. 16. 5. B ÖL C SKE-M AD O C SÄHE G Y 1 (County Tolna). Three fragments of a scabbard. Stray find. MNM inv. no. 41.1906.2 (PL 7, 111. V). Scabbard Upper end of a scabbard, and part of the front plate. Present maximum length. Upper part of the front plate, 13 cm, upper part of the reverse, 16.2 cm, lower part of the front plate, 19.7 cm. Breadth. 5.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety, 1.5 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. ? Ferrule. Straight bar ornamented with incised wavy lines on the front side, the reverse is of the T/V type. Loop. Type IIIA, 1.5 cm long by 1.3 cm broad. Loopplates. The upper plate consists of the arm of the T/V type reinforce, the lower one is of elongated shield shape; both have rivets. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Missing. Chagrinage. Shagreened with single and compound ring punches within the diagonal HSS pattern. Design, lbx-t^c; HSS, phase 2. Literature. Hunyady (1942-44) Pl. XLVI.4; ECA, PL 67.116; Szabó (1971) Fig. 21; KKM, 42, Cat. no. 75, Fig. 75; Frey (1974) 144, Fig. 2.1-2; Frey-Megaw (1976) PL 3.3 (detail); Duval (1977a) 126, Fig. 118; Szabó (1977) 217, Fig. 7a; Szabó (1982) 180, note 44, 188, Fig. 17 (detail); Bulard (1982) 153, 158, Fig. 3.2; Petres (1983) 54, Figs 1-2; Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 130, Fig. 190, centre right. 6. B ÖLCSKE-M AD O C S AHE G Y 2 (County Tolna). Front plate of a scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 41.1906.1 (PL 8). Scabbard The reverse of the scabbard is missing. Length. 79.6 cm. Breadth. 6 cm. Mouth. Type A2, high campanulate variety, 1.8 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Probably front over back. Reinforce. None (but a reinforce-shaped empty field can be seen where the reinforce should be). Chape-clamps. None. Chapebridge. Engraved decoration in its place. Chapeend. Missing. Charinage. Shagreened with a compound ring punch, forming seven triangles of three pairs of rings within the engraved diagonal HSS ornament. Design. lbi+2bi+4b; HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 83 cm. Total length of hilt. 14 cm. Breadth. 5.8 cm. Hilt end. The tang ends in a large hemispherical knob, ornamented on both sides, and surmounted by a disc button. Literature. Hunyady (1942-44) Pl. XLV.6; Szabó (1972) Fig. 19; KKM, 28, 42, Cat. no. 77; Duval (1977a) 126, Fig. 121; Szabó (1982) 188, Fig. 18 (detail); Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 130, Fig. 190 far right. 7. CSABRENDEK (County Veszprém). Spearhead. Possibly from a cremation burial. KBM. Destroyed during World War II (PL 9.) Iron spearhead with incised ornament Length. 17.2 cm. Width of blade. 3.5 cm. Length of socket. 5.1 cm. Rapin's Type la, "forme classique". Design. Different HSS patterns on both sides of the blade. The base of the socket has a postWaldalgesheim pattern. Grave goods Iron sword, folded in two; spearhead (2.) with incised geometric pattern. The dating of this spearhead to the La Tène period and its association with the HSS-post-Waldalgesheim ornamented spearhead is doubtful. In his first publication Dorner (Darnay) wrote that the abovedescribed spearhead was found in inhumation grave 12, together with the fragments of two different swords, the fragment of a bronze spearhead and a bronze dagger or knife. These finds, however, would suggest the grave goods of a Bronze Age burial. Only later does Darnay
